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Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off from his hands.

When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly know that the Lord has sent forth his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting."

They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his angel."

But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him forth out of the prison. He said, "Tell these things to James, and to the brothers." He departed, and went to another place.

But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith.

But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,

Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.

Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.

From this man's seed, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

As John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, there comes one after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'

and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.

Simeon has reported how God first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

All his works are known to God from eternity.'

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

Paul wanted to have him go forth with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.